Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-01-18
Citizens Of Chicago Raise the Encum'
trancss On Mrs. Legan's Home.
GENERAL ORGANIZATION OF THE cpAl
WORKERS OF the UNITED STATES.
ESPECIAL TO n s~EyrrsKL.1
An Extensive Railroad Wreck.

An Extensive Railroad Wreck.
WESTMINSTER DEPoT, Mass, Jan.
1.-THE Western Express on the
Fitchburg railroad due in Boston at 3
o'clock, was wrecked this afternoon
about 4 O'Clock at Westminster. A
broken rail at the switch west of the
depot causing the derailment. The
train consisted of three Pullman sleep
ing cars, one passenger coach, the
smoking car, and baggage car. The
engine, baggage car, and sleeping car
went over the rail safely. The sleeper
Ladoga was overthrown and ran the
distance OF an eighth of a mile on its
side. The sleeper New Castle was
smashed in the forward end, and the
passenger coach was twisted sideways
off the track. Six freight cars ON the
side track were sent over on their
sides, and the two main tracks were
completely blocked. 1t seems miracu-
lous that no one was seriously injured.
Beyond a few slight bruises the pas
sengers escaped unhurt. In the spe-
cial Pullman car Nimrod, which went
over the rail all right, was Mr.. Hoyt,
the well-known cologne manufacturer,
who was returning from a Southern
| trip in feeble health. In the Ladoga
the only passengers were Mrs. James
| Wilson and child, of Augusta, Maine,
and beyond a slight shaking up, they
were all right. In the New Castle
were Capt. F. A. Kendall, of the
United States Army, and wife, of
| Cleveland, Ohio. w. HI. Farmes, Con-
ductor Warner, and the porter, all of
whom received slight bruises. In the
passenger coach were some 80 passen-
gers. They were shaken up, but none
were even bruised. Fortunately the
lamps had not been lighted, and not
even a spark ignited from the stoves.
The May Fortescue troupe, which
had been playing in Boston, was on a
west-bound train, and was not able to
get by the wreck for some hours.
Asphyxiafed by OdOrless Gas.
Troy, N. Y, Jan. 17.-Last night a
police officer was told by a restaurant
keeper at 395 River street, that he and
his family had been Supplied from the
effects, as he predicted, of foul gas,
which had entered their apartments
from the Gas Company's building near
by. The gas was shut off, and an ex-
animation of the houses in the neigh
borhood was made. In one Of
a tenement house three persons, w.
Gilfllan, lila Bennett, and Caroline
Bennett, were found dead, sitting
about the room as they had been con-
versing when the gas overcame them.
The bodies were taken to an under
takers rooms and the Coroner notified.
Other families in the neighborhood
were aroused and ordered by the police
to leave their houses. A leak in the
pipes which ran through that district
was the probable cause OF the accident,
the gas being odorless. Twenty other
persons were more or less effected in
the same locality. The survivors say
they experienced a drowsiness and
sickness at the stomach. The author
tiles are investigating the matter, and
a special meeting OF the Common
Council has been called to take neces-
sary action. The company has shut
off the gas from its main, and will not
supply customers until they car make
gas that is not odorless.
Calumet Place Free from Debt.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE citizens
of Chicago having contributed $13 900
to a fund in payment Of the encum-
ORANGES now resting upon the home
of Mrs. Logan in this city, Col. M. M.
Parker to-day called on her, and OBJ
tanning from her a check on Briggs &
Co., paid off the notes. Later in the
day he presented to Mrs. Logan the
cancelled notes, and she now owns the
house known as the Calumet Place on
Columbia Heights, free from all en-
cumbrances. 1t is expected that the
movement for a monument to General
Logan will originate either with the
Grand Army Post OF the Army OF the
Tennessee. The latter body meets in
Detroit in September next, and it is
probable that the movement will take
prominent shape then.
General Haxen's Funeral.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.-General Ha-
zen will be buried with military hon.
ors on Wednesday at II. O'Clock from
st. James Church. His remains will
be temporarily inferred at Oak Hill or
Rock Creek Cemetery, The final in
torment will be made after Mrs. Ha-
zen's return from Europe, probably at
Hiram, Ohio, his old home. General
Sheridan has charge OF the military
arrangements of the funeral, but the
military escort has been placed under
command of Colonel Gibson of the
Third Artillery. The escort will CON
sist OF a detachment from the Signal
Corps Artillery batteries stationed
here, and a detachment from the Ma
rine Corps. |